Friday, January 28, 2005

Surveillance shot of monkey robbery

A man dressed in a monkey costume threatened an employee at a local convenience store with a knife in the predawn hours of Tuesday in an unsuccessful robbery attempt, police said.

At around 2:15 a.m., a man wearing a monkey costume sneaked into the Lawson convenience store's Yokkaichi Hinaga-Nishi outlet, threatened a 26-year-old employee with a knife and demanded money, local police said.